True, Trump is not a dictator - and he had to work with Congress.
But it isn't like Trump didn't have any input into this process. In fact, he said this:
Trump: 'I will be blaming Mnuchin and Cohn' for any trouble with tax reform
If Trump didn't want tax cuts to hit so hard on many middle class, he had these two Goldman Sachs veterans working with Congress.
But as I said before, my side lost this effort. Both the House and Senate bills passed. A bill will be on the President's desk shortly, and both bills are very similar.
I hope the economy does do well. But the balance sheets of most coroporations have been filled with cash for some time, and they have not used that to "reinvest." Instead, they sat on it or used much of it to buy back stock. Salaries of high ranking executives and their stock dividends seemed to be the areas of priority rather than wages. Even Gary Cohn was mystified when he asked a room of CEO's who would reinvest in their companies, and only a handful of hands went up.
I don't even think most Republicans on the hill are positive about what is going to happen. They have made a big gamble. And many of us will be paying for the bet.
Anyway, time to move on to the next issue. The tax bill debate is pretty much over.